"FolderShare": Any comments?

[Sylvander]

See this http://www.foldershare.com/

What uses can this be put to?

Are there any associated problems?

[Vic 970]

one use that I can think of is that you can update all the diagnostic flowcharts without any of us having to bother.

:D

associated problems: we wouldn't know whether you'd done them or not !

;)

[Sylvander]

It looks like you set up a peer network among buddies, rather like in MS Messenger. On each PC there is a folder where files are kept [and they are all identical copies] and if anyone up-dates a file, then all the files on all the other PC's are up-dated.

The present arrangement for the Diagnostic Flowcharts is even better than that because anyone can access them.

I'm trying to think of a use for this.
Family photographs would be a good one.
All the photo's you put in there would be available to every member of the family. It's a common library accessible to all the "members".

[pave_spectre]

Problem would be that it would require an always on connection to prevent two people updating the same file differently.

[Sylvander]

I wonder:

If two people made alterations:
When they connected, would the last update overwrite the 2nd last even though it didn't include the latest information?

[pave_spectre]

Ive seen similar software, for use on LANs mostly, but some over the net, and they all seemed to specify an always on connection(for the inet versions) or allowed a VPN connection, and the more expensive versions utilised a check-in/check-out system to prevent that kind of problem.

I think they're mostly aimed at businesses that run fairly large project teams so that all members responsible for a specific project element dont need to constantly get together for meeting to explain changes which allow geographiclly seperated people to take part in a single project.

[Vic 970]

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